We are mere dewdrops in Eternity

The shining dewdrops

We are just entering the nostalgic winter. The sheer feeling of its long awaited arrival fills us with excitement and joy. We all love its beauty, its charm and splendour. We feel caressed in its tender laps, secured in its majestic presence. She provides a beautiful refuge after scorching sun of the summer and torrents of the rains. The shining dew drops in the grass blades just capture our eyes and imaginations with its aura and beauty. A little sparkling dew drop is an imagery of the sun in its fullness. Sun in a dew drop!

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We are just witness

We are also like a dew drop reflecting the life or consciousness in its wholeness and holiness. Life shining through us, manifesting through us and creating through us! It is the light of the source, the sun; that creates aura in a dew drop. It is never the creation of the dew particles; it just comes on it naturally and involuntarily. It just provides the instrumentality or the background for light to illumine itself in its emptiness and absence. It is just a passive witness.

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Free will is a killer poison

We are also instruments like dew drops for the divinity to manifest Itself in fullness. We are just the background for creation to happen as a part of the cosmic functioning. It is all impersonal phenomena without the presence of the individual volitional entities. Volition or free will is a myth or a fiction. The illusive volition kills the beauty and uniqueness of the creation. It kills the divine creative potential and its possibilities. It is like a killer poison!

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Free will is a myth

There are pointers in Gita suggesting to the impersonal functioning of the Nature. It says “prakriteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvashah; ahamkar vimoodhatma kartaham iti manyate.” Lord says that the Nature is functioning on the basis of its own functional dynamics; and he is a big fool who thinks that he is the doer. This is a precise and unequivocal statement. The conception of an individual doer or a thinker or an experiencer is a myth.

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Buddha and Ramana on Free will

Buddha sees the actions as just phenomenal happenings. He says “There is a path to walk on, there is walking being done, but there is no traveler. There are deeds being done, but there is no doer. There is blowing of the air, but there is no wind that does the blowing. The thought of self is an error and all existences are as hollow as the plantain tree and as empty as twirling water bubbles.”
Ramana Maharshi puts the whole thing in perspective as the ‘final truth’ and said “There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement.” Shine like a dew drop! Puposelessly and unconditionally!